Titles starting with B from Margolis & Moss

New York: D. Lothrop & Co.. 1881/82. Nine issues. Illustrated. Quarto, 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. Pictorial wrappers; staple bound; some wrappers repaired with old tape. Nine issues of this magazine for children, rarely found in original condition. Volume V. No. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, & 10. Volume VI. No. 1. ... more information

Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co. , 1870. 92 pages. Wood-engravings by A. V. S. Anthony, after Fenn, Homer, Eytinge, Fredricks and Darley. 8vo, gilt-pictorial burgundy cloth; spine faded; last signature loose. With the book label for "Whipple & Smith. First edition with these illustrations. BAL 22265. HAMILTON 735 ... more information

A group of 100 fragments of mostly English bank notes from the early nineteenth century. Each is exquisitely engraved on thin paper. Most measure 4 x 1 inches, and have been cut from complete notes. "In Britain, bank notes emerged in the late 17th century...a proliferation of banks in the early 19th century brought a mass of different bank notes. By 1810 Britain had well over 700 'country banks', each issuing its own locally engraved notes." - Encyclopedia of Ephemera. These fragm... more information

Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1837. 258 pages. 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Original blue cloth in a floral textured pattern; small hole in spine; spine faded; preliminary leaves lacking. First edition by the Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Hancock, New Hampshire. American Imprints #43486. ... more information

Wilmington: P. Brynberg, 1809. 36 pages. Twelvemo (5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches); gray wrappers; a bright copy. An uncommon Delaware imprint. The last six pages contain "Divine Songs for Children" by Dr. Watts. Rosenbach 383. ... more information

Reading. Pa.: Hipple Bros. Upholsterers, c. 1875. Broadside for the opening of a parlor furniture ware-room. Printed on striped paper. 8 3/4 x 6 inches. ... more information

Venetia: Appresso Girolamo Polo, 1590. 574 leaves + 2 leaves of index. Thick Octavo, 6 x 4 inches. Early decorative boards, covers and spine rubbed; title-page repaired, first signature trimmed. A later edition of this important history of the Popes. Platina (1421 - 1481) was an Italian humanist and historian who was appointed Vatican librarian by Sixtus IV (1475). In 1479 he published his major work "Historia de Vitis Pontificum Rmanorum..." The WorldCat locates only one copy at Penn... more information

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1924. 398 pages. Illustrated from photographs. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Green cloth with gilt lettering and tipped on color reproduction, plus a slightly chipped dust jacket. Rear inner hinge cracked; bookplate. First edition. A fine travelogue / guide book, rarely found with dust jacket. ... more information

London: Yardley & Co., Ltd., 1938. A 31 page catalog for Yardley beauty products. The catalog measures 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Wrappers. Printed in full color on glossy paper throughout. With price list and original mailing envelope. ... more information

Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, circa 1850. 162 pages. 6 x 3 3/4 inches. Publishers brown, embossed cloth; clean and tight Later printing, originally issued in 1843. Wright #60. ... more information

Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1897. 224 pages. 6 x 4 1/2 inches. Brown publisher's cloth with gilt-pictorial cover; light wear to spine. Eleventh edition, originally published in 1876. The author examines pig-iron, hog, corn and cotton price cycles. "Benner's was probably the earliest significant effort at business forecasting in the United States which was based on the examination of specific factors over a period of time in the past... This early, crude attempt at forecasting ... more information

Wien: Wilhelm Braumuller, 1863. 12 pages. With two large mounted albumen photographs showing the assembled and disassembled skeleton of a large fossilized bird. The images measure 10 ½ x 7 ½ inches ( 267 x 191 mm.). Folio, 13 x 9 ¾ inches ( 330 x 229 mm.). Yellow printed wrappers; a bright, clean copy. After studying medicine at Tubingen, Jäger became the director of the Viennese Zoological Garden. It was at this time that he published the above paper with its two extraordinary p... more information

Paris: Bernard Freres, circa 1910.. An elegant, six panel folder. Illustrated. 8 x 4 1/2 inches. A bright copy. The cover panel displays various metals awarded to this firm, which was established in 1854. Inside are views of the factories and the various packaging for their products. A beautifully produced advertisement sheet. ... more information

Kansas City: The Berry Publishing Co., (1911). . With 36 pages of text and a large, colored folding map measuring 17 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches. Twelvemo, 6 3/4 x 4 inches. Brown printed wrappers. Aside from one split at a fold, a fine, bright copy. "Showing all railroads, cities, towns, villages, postoffices, creeks, rivers, etc. ... more information

New York: Evert Duyckinck , 1818. Large 12mo, contemporary calf; lightly rubbed. Evert Duyckinck, a Dutch bookseller, was one of New York City's earliest successful publishers. By the time of his death in 1833 he had been in publishing for forty years. He was also the founder of a family of nineteenth century biographers and editors. An attractive New Testament of 164 unnumbered leaves. HILLS 363. ... more information

London: Nimmo, 1888. 384 pages. 8vo, two-tone red cloth; lightly rubbed First edition of this pioneering work. One of 500 copies. A masterful compilation of bibliographical research, issued in a small edition, and until the recent (1970) revision, the main source for English theatrical history. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1931. 171 pages. Illustrated with reproductions of book covers and title-pages. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; A fine, bright copy. First edition, one of 500 numbered copies. ... more information

New York: Charles B. Norton, 1859. 52 pages + ads. 8 1/2 x 7 inches. Printed wrappers; spine torn, rear cover loose. With the contemporary signature of Phiny H. White, Covntry, Vt. Issued in NORTON'S LITERARY LETTER. NUMBER 4, this is possibly the first published bibliography of the State of Maine. ... more information

Philadelphia: Printed and sold by John Bioren, (1817). Interleaved monthly calendar + 32 pages of text. Sixteenmo (4 1/2 x 3 inches); contemporary blue wrappers, light wear Some contemporary manuscript notations no inside cover: River broke up the 6 March a dreadful rainy day..." AMERICAN IMPRINTS #40254. ... more information

Saint Paul: Great Northern Railway, 1940.. Twenty four prints of famous Blackfeet Indian paintings by Winhold Reiss. Includes the 12 page booklet in self wrappers "Out of the North" an authentic account of the Blackfeet tribe" written by Frank Linderman. Housed in a beautifully colored envelope. 9 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches. Also included is the original pictorially printed, unused mailing envelope. Some wear on both envelopes, prints and booklet in excellent condition. ... more information